It’s Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020…but before we begin, meet the Oxycontin of oxymorons, Police Chief William McManus, who, in the wake of a shooting at a bar in San Antonio’s River Walk, the city’s popular nightspot and tourist attraction which left two dead and five injured, had the chutzpah to say…
“…In regards to the safety of the Mission Reach area of the River Walk, the River Walk is safe. Always has been, always will be.“
We must also note police pursued the perp without disseminating a description, which is more than a bit curious, as the article linked above reported a “manhunt” in progress. Granted, our law enforcement experience is largely limited to television and movies, but aren’t manhunts manifestly more efficacious when the predators provide an accurate description of the prey?!?
Unless, of course, the politics of “diversity”…
…trump the interests of public safety.
Since we’re on the subject of predators, FOX News offered this account of…
“…The 53-year-old actor declared that billionaires were “getting nervous,” while the corporate media were “confused” about Sanders’ campaign.(That makes TWO of us!)“And, it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we’re still here,” he said.
He then decried a form of capitalism he dubbed “predatory capitalism,” which “takes our lives…our labor, our spirt, our air and water, even ourearth.”He continued, “Bernie respects us enough to tell the truth, the hard truth: We have a 10-to-12-year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all.”…”
Wasn’t it AOC who hit us with that particular “hard truth”?
No matter. Cusack concluded by telling the screaming mob of 12 people in attendance…
Okay, we made that last part up…but like Progressives’ worst charges against The Donald, it’s what he was thinking!!!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, we check in on the latest results from the Big Government model Bernie and his fellow Chavistas hope to put into practice from sea to shining sea, all across the soon-to-be fruitless plains:
“…An online blogger, Lorenzo Delgado, posted a live video Saturday showing the warehouse filled with water bottles, cots, baby food and other basic supplies that had apparently been sitting there since Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. territory in September 2017.
A group of people then broke into the warehouse and began distributing supplies to those affected by the earthquake that killed one person and caused damage across Puerto Rico’s southern region, The Associated Press reported. More than 7,000 people remain in shelters across the island as strong aftershocks continue…”
Rest assured said supplies…like those liberated by the New Orleans looters in the wake of Hurricane Katrina…
…or in the Armpit of the East Coast following the Freddie Gray riots…
…were distributed fairly and equally. After all, what mother couldn’t use…
…2,000 baby wipes? It’s not like those bebés are going to clean their own backsides!
Here’s the juice: government is never either the lowest-cost or most-efficient provider of anything…including America’s Military.
In a related item regarding another Big Government success story, as detailed at Jim Freeman’s Best of the Web, CNBC is reporting Elizabeth Warren wants to create a Justice Department task force to investigate Trump administration corruption.
To which Freeman responded, yeah…should be up and running by July 2016!
Speaking of Big Government success stories, consider this from NRO‘s The Corner, as Jim Geraghty offers his observations on the…
NBC News: “As gun rights rally looms in Virginia, Richmond residents fear another Charlottesville.Many say they’ll be staying as far away as possible from a demonstration they worry will turn violent.”
Axios: “As Richmond braces for hate, Americans say race relations are getting worse.”
This morning, MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin declared that “right now thousands of gun-rights activists, white nationalists, militia groups” were “all swarming the Virginia state capitol in Richmond.”
The Associated Press: “State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that’s expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond.”
Perhaps the police presence kept everyone on their best behavior. Orperhaps it was the presence of all of those armed citizens.Perhaps the hateful types decided to stay away — or perhaps they were never that likely to show up in significant numbers at all. Governor Ralph Northamenacted unprecedented emergency security measuresout of fears that racists will be in attendance.Because if we Virginians know anything, it’s that Ralph Northam would never tolerateanything racist.
…The day went, by almost every measure, exactly the way Second Amendment advocates and law-abiding gun owners hoped it would…well, by almost every measure. Apparently the leaders of the new Democratic majority in the state legislature think getting 22,000 people to attend a rally outside the capitol on a frigid morning is no big deal:
Democratic lawmakers — including House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn and Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw — told AP the rally wouldn’t impact their plans to pass gun-control measures, including universal background checks and a one-handgun-purchase-a-month limit. Democrats say tightening Virginia’s gun laws will make communities safer and help prevent mass shootings like the one last year in Virginia Beach, where a dozen people were killed in a municipal building.“
Corn and Saslaw are both from the comfortably Communist confines of Fairfax County. The real question is how state representatives from the less-Socialist parts of the state feel…or more importantly, vote.
For more on Progressives’ latest assault on the 2nd Amendment, we turn to these three clips from Tucker Carlson’s Monday evening interview with Colion Noir, a broadcast including, but not limited to, Tucker wondering why Virginia could possibly seek to emulate her immediate neighbor to the north…
…Colion Noir’s contention the Progressives wanted the Richmond rally to provide American Socialism the equivalent of the Reichstag fire…
…along with Colion’s incredibly insightful analysis of what gun control is really all about:
Now…
We had earlier embedded a copy of Tucker’s 1/20/20 full broadcast edited to conform with the three clips featured above. For those of you unfamiliar with the ins-and-outs of blogging, you embed a video by copying its code, in this case…
…and inserting it into the text version of your blog. But in this case, 45 minutes of what was perhaps Tucker’s finest hour was translated into this…
…mere 8 seconds of his opening.
We had checked, double-checked and triple-checked our work. Yet suddenly, when we went to publish the final draft this evening, not only were our edited versions no longer functioning, but we couldn’t any YouTube video of what was previously Tucker’s full 1/20/20 show, at least not any version longer than 9 seconds.
Which begs the question, are you truly paranoid if everyone really is out to get you?!?
If there’s anyone out there who can offer a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon, we welcome your thoughts. Meanwhile, we’ll frankly be surprised if the three videos clips we accessed from Colion Noir’s personal website survive translation.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, as we’re discussing Progressive conspiracies aimed at silencing any opposition, to this item from Julio Rosas writing at Townhall.com:
You couldn’t, quite literally, make such a scenario up. Why not just rehire Dan Rather, Brian Williams or Matt Lauer…and get Harvey Weinstein to produce their shows?!?
Turning now to The Lighter Side…
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with this notice from the Ravenna, Ohio Police Department:
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